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    Dating Apps' Trust Tax: How Relationship Surveillance Became a Growth Industry

    Dating Apps' Trust Tax: How Relationship Surveillance Became a Growth Industry

    Dating app market reached 350 million global users generating over $6 billion in revenue in 2025 Major platforms allow a…

    Friday 15th May (1 day ago) · 1 min readRead →
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    Tantan's 'Intentional Casual' Rebrand: A Strategic Exit from China's Grip?

    Tantan's 'Intentional Casual' Rebrand: A Strategic Exit from China's Grip?

    Tantan was acquired by Momo for $735M in 2018 and has now relocated its global headquarters from China to Singapore The …

    Thursday 14th May (2 days ago) · 1 min readRead →
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    Bumble's AI Matchmaking: Efficiency or the End of Authenticity?

    Bumble's AI Matchmaking: Efficiency or the End of Authenticity?

    Bumble plans to eliminate swiping entirely in a major 2026 app redesign, replacing it with AI-driven matchmaking AI dati…

    Wednesday 13th May (3 days ago) · 1 min readRead →
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    QuackQuack's Climate Shift: Virtual Dates as the New Norm

    QuackQuack's Climate Shift: Virtual Dates as the New Norm

    37% of Indian singles now prefer virtual dates over in-person meetings during summer heatwaves Peak dating app usage has…

    Tuesday 12th May (4 days ago) · 1 min readRead →
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    Reev's Voice-First Gamble: Can Gen Z's Burnout Fuel a Dating Revolution?

    Reev's Voice-First Gamble: Can Gen Z's Burnout Fuel a Dating Revolution?

    Reev is a voice-first dating app launching in Australia with mandatory audio prompts before photo access, requiring user…

    Monday 11th May (5 days ago) · 1 min readRead →
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    Bumble's Swipe Abandonment: A Desperate AI Gamble?

    Bumble's Swipe Abandonment: A Desperate AI Gamble?

    Bumble will eliminate swiping entirely in Q4 2026, replacing it with an AI-driven matching system Paying users dropped 2…

    Friday 8th May · 1 min readRead →
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    Ashley Madison's 'Discreet Dictionary': Privacy Pivot or PR Ploy?

    Ashley Madison's 'Discreet Dictionary': Privacy Pivot or PR Ploy?

    Ashley Madison releases 'Discreet Dictionary' with ten privacy-focused dating terms eleven years after 37 million user r…

    Wednesday 29th April · 1 min readRead →
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    Pure's $100M Bet: Redesigning Hookups While Rivals Stagnate

    Pure's $100M Bet: Redesigning Hookups While Rivals Stagnate

    Pure claims $100M in annual revenue and 95% year-on-year registration growth, though neither metric has been independent…

    Friday 24th April · 1 min readRead →
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    Hinge's 'Date Ideas' Feature: A Fix for Messaging Fatigue or Just More User Work?

    Hinge's 'Date Ideas' Feature: A Fix for Messaging Fatigue or Just More User Work?

    76% of Hinge users report conversations die because neither party suggests meeting up 79% said they'd be more likely to …

    Thursday 23rd April · 1 min readRead →
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    Tinder's Iris Scan: The Biometric Arms Race in Dating

    Tinder's Iris Scan: The Biometric Arms Race in Dating

    Tinder will integrate Sam Altman's World iris-scanning verification system to combat AI-enabled fraud projected to reach…

    Monday 20th April · 1 min readRead →
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    Tinder's 'Vibe' AI: A 76% Accuracy That's 24% Opaque

    Tinder's 'Vibe' AI: A 76% Accuracy That's 24% Opaque

    Tinder's upgraded Smart Photos feature uses vision-language models to evaluate photo 'vibe', increasing prediction accur…

    Thursday 16th April · 1 min readRead →
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    Sniffies' Anti-Retention Strategy: A Bold Bet on User Outcomes

    Sniffies' Anti-Retention Strategy: A Bold Bet on User Outcomes

    Sniffies has launched four features designed to accelerate the path from profile view to in-person hookup, inverting the…

    Wednesday 15th April · 1 min readRead →